Heinrich-Brüning-Strasse 20 (Bonn)

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Villa and press club extension, Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 20 (2013)

The house at Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 20 is a villa in the Bonn district of Gronau , which was built in 1909 and expanded on one side as a “press club” from 1975–77. It forms the left end of the three-part villa group Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 16-20, which is located in the center of the federal district . The villa stands by its outer structure and the mansard roof since 2000 as a monument under monument protection .

history

The villa was built as part of a group of villas, which, like some buildings in what was then the "Villa Colony Gronau" on the southern outskirts of Bonn, was designed by the Bonn architect and government master builder Julius Rolff (1868–1946) for the client Alfred Keller from Siegburg . The villa group suffered severe damage during the Second World War , which was then restored in 1949.

After Bonn had become the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the villa was located in the middle of the new parliament and government district . After it was founded in 1950, the Central Legal Protection Office took its seat in the property and was located here at least until 1955, as was the German Federal Publishing House, which was subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Justice and 70% of which was owned by the federal government, from 1951 to the early 1970s at the latest .

Press club

At the end of the 1960s, the villa came into the focus of the German Press Club , which - together with the Association of the Foreign Press in Germany (25% each) and for the Federal Press Office of the Federal Republic of Germany (50%) - sponsor of the Press Club Wirtschafts-GmbH was looking for a new clubhouse that would serve as a meeting place for domestic and foreign journalists , federal politicians , diplomats and business representatives. The previous one was in Villa Adenauerallee 89b and was to give way to a new building for the adjoining Ministry of Post . The closer parliamentary and government district, including the Villa Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 20, located in the immediate vicinity of the center of the German capital's press in the “press house” of the Tulpenfeld complex, was considered as a new location for the press club . In addition, since the former user of the property, Deutscher Bundesverlag GmbH, was able to move into the newly constructed cross-structure as part of the Federal Ministry of Justice , the press club - expanded by a new building - considered it a suitable location. The plans initially conflicted with the federal-state commission for educational planning and research funding , which, in the person of Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, was also interested in the villa.

In October 1973 the main hurdles for the project could be overcome, the Deutscher Bundesverlag GmbH agreed to sell the property after intermittent resistance. The renovation of the villa and the construction of the extension for the press club were carried out on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany under the direction of the Federal Building Directorate , which commissioned the architect Eberhard Schultz with the design . The plans were completed at the end of 1974 and construction began in the spring of 1975. On August 18, 1977 the new clubhouse was presented at a press conference and inaugurated and opened in September. It took 5.4 million DM from federal and, to a lesser extent, private funds (“Press Club Art Fund”), including 3.75 million DM for construction and outdoor facilities, 630,000 DM for the interior and one million DM for the property. The federal government left the clubhouse rent-free to Presseclub-Wirtschafts-GmbH as the sponsor. It had various conference and club rooms, a bar on the basement floor and a restaurant with several dining rooms and a kitchen that was designed for 250 guests. For the business-GmbH were offices and its managing director kept an apartment. The house was equipped with a number of artistic installations, sculptures and sculptures .

"[T] he new, larger building combines what is not exactly common in the federal capital, modern functionality and old-fashioned comfort in an acceptable, some even say: smart way."

- Rolf Zundel (1977)

In the course of relocating the seat of parliament and government , the German Press Club moved to Berlin in the summer of 1999 , where it no longer has its own club house. The federal government transferred the now vacant clubhouse in Bonn to the city of Bonn in autumn 1999 with the condition that it be maintained as a communication center for the media . In May 2002, the renovation of the building began at a cost of 900,000 euros from funds from the agreement on compensatory measures for the Bonn region , which was completed by the reopening of the press club in January 2003. The Presseclub Bonn was founded as the ideal sponsor of the club . At the end of 2004, the business was closed again due to a lack of economic viability, but was resumed the following year under a new lessee . After it was closed again in September 2006, the city of Bonn put the property up for sale in 2007, which was made in early 2008 to the Bonn entrepreneur Marc Asbeck , who has owned the entire villa group Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 16-20 since then. The proceeds from the sale flowed into the reserve for the World Conference Center Bonn . After a renovation and major renovation completed in 2009, Deutsche Post has been using the building as a canteen since 2010 . It is also intended as a meeting point for journalists , press spokesmen and representatives from politics, business and institutions under the name “Press Club” . In March 2019, it became known that Swiss Post had not extended the lease and that the canteen would therefore be closing at the end of that month.

architecture

The villa has two floors on a high, easy abge böschten basement ( basement built) and upward from a slate-roofed mansard hipped completed. On the street front there is a semicircular porch ( Auslucht ) that carries a balcony at the height of the eaves . The extension, which was created as a press club, recedes somewhat from the street-side building line of the old building so as not to impair its facade effect. The shape of the semicircular porch of the villa can be found here in two round components as well as in the rear terrace . The usable area of the property is around 1,300 m².

Art equipment

When it opened in 1977, direct orders were placed equally between female and male artists for permanent art equipment for the “press club”. In the outdoor area, a stainless steel sculpture by Ernst Günter Hansing was created hanging from the terrace roof , each as a wall design for the circular rooms of the extension of the political zoo by graphic artist and caricaturist Josef Partykiewicz (1922-2003) with around 20 animal representations of prominent politicians on the first floor (media corner ) and a tapestry as tapestry by Sigrid Wylach under a textile ceiling design on the ground floor / mezzanine floor (guest room), as well as a glass design of the window wall by Hella Santarossa in the entrance area on the ground floor . While the Politikerzoo was transferred to the collection of the House of History , the whereabouts of the other works of art are unknown (as of 2013).

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 20  - Collection of images

Remarks

  1. ^ Until 1972 Petersbergstraße 20 (→ list of streets in Bonn's Gronau district )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 3572
  2. ^ A b Martin Wein: From after 42 years - Deutsche Post closes the Bonn press club. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . March 25, 2019, accessed March 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Entry on residential building, Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 16/18/20 (formerly Petersbergstraße) in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association (with a brief description of the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland by Angelika Schyma and Elke Janßen-Schnabel, 2005)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Heinz Murmann: With 'C' it's finer: The German Press Club Bonn 1952 until today .
  5. ^ Press and Information Office (ed.): Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1953, p. 1250
  6. ^ Paperback of public life , Festland Verlag GMBH, 1955, p. 80
  7. ↑ Documentation Techniques in the USA: Selection, Reproduction, Dissemination, Part 65 , Organization for European Economic Co-operation, 1951, p. 61
  8. ^ SBZ archive, Volume 16, Kiepenheuer and Witsch Verlag, 1965, p. 384
  9. ↑ The Press Club , General-Anzeiger , December 16, 1998, p. 6
  10. ↑ Federal budget for the budget year 1988 , Bundesdruckerei, 1988, Volume 1, p. 38
  11. ↑ a b Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research (ed.); Claudia Büttner, Christina Lanzl: Short documentation of 200 art-in-building works on behalf of the federal government from 1950 to 1979 , BBSR online publication 12/2014, December 2014, pp. 147–157. ( online PDF )
  12. ↑ all-time strictly confidential , Time , September 2, 1977
  13. ↑ Suspended game about the press club , General-Anzeiger, December 16, 1998, Bonner Stadtausgabe, p. 6
  14. ↑ The lights will go on again soon in the press club , General-Anzeiger, March 14, 2000, Bonner Stadtausgabe, p. 6
  15. ↑ The old press club is awakening to new life , General-Anzeiger, May 7, 2002, Bonner Stadtausgabe, p. 7
  16. ↑ A Sleeping Beauty is kissed awake , General-Anzeiger, January 30, 2003
  17. ↑ The lights will go out soon in the press club , General-Anzeiger, December 8, 2004
  18. ^ City is looking for a new operator , General-Anzeiger, January 10, 2005
  19. ↑ City of Bonn is negotiating with the federal government on the sale of the press club , General-Anzeiger, September 9, 2006
  20. ↑ "This is an object with a lot of potential" , General-Anzeiger, February 28, 2007
  21. ^ City sells press club , General-Anzeiger, January 29, 2008
  22. ↑ Press Club ( Memento from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Manstein Architects
  23. ↑ P (r) unk in the Bonner Presseclub , General-Anzeiger , February 14, 2009
  24. ^ Post wants to rent the press club , General-Anzeiger, November 10, 2008
  25. ↑ ´ Post rents press club and uses it as a canteen , General-Anzeiger, March 3, 2010
  26. ↑ a b Post / DHL Press Club , Marc Asbeck property
  27. ^ Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research (ed.); Claudia Büttner, Christina Lanzl: Short documentation of 200 art-in-building works on behalf of the federal government from 1950 to 1979 , BBSR online publication 12/2014, December 2014, p. 25. ( online PDF )
  28. ↑ Bonn Press Club , Hella Santarossa
  29. ^ Controversy over works of art in the press club , Kölnische Rundschau / Bonner Rundschau, February 9, 2009
  30. ↑ Are they spinning? , Express , August 10, 2008

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